Policy Modelling in Agriculture: Testing the Response of Agriculture to Adjustment Policies in Nigeria

M Kwanashie, Garba, A-G and Ajilima

Working Papers from African Economic Research Consortium

Abstract: A proposition that has enjoyed wide acceptance among those concerned with the design and the evaluation of the adjustment process in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is that the agricultrual sector is critical to a change in the structures of these economies. This proposition is on the basis that the structural features of the agricultural sector in these economies places the sector in a strategic position in any programme that aims at : arreting the decline of SSA economies in the short run; improving trade and payment balances; generating medium-term conomic growth; and engendering a long-term transformation of these economies.

Keywords: AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AFRICA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997

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